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nular, clothed with fiavescent hairs ; antennae flavous ; prothorax 

 ad, marginate laterally and in front but not along the base the 

 iian part of which is depressed and projects as a broad triangle, 

 3 moderately closely punctate, but the punctuation varies in the 

 , the median supra-basal part, however, is smooth in both ; elytra 

 adly ampliate at base, and gradually attenuate from about the 

 iian part, the striae are very shallow, but somewhat broad and 



geminate, the intervals are covered with very closely set seti- 

 ous punctures, the second interval is twice as broad as the third, 

 Lch is also narrower than the fourth, the humeral callus is very 

 iinct, and the third and fifth intervals are raised ; pygidium very 

 iely punctured, pubescent ; median parts of metasternum smooth 

 L having a faint longitudinal impressed line ; apical spur of 

 erior tibiae curved inwardly at tip. 



/Lale : Clypeus rounded in front, no trace of frontal carina in the 

 ^e development, but it can be noticed in less developed males, 

 n on the vertex upright for half the length, and from there 

 htly curved backwards and reaching a length of 12 mm. in the 

 ve ; prothorax with a deep excavation on each side of the anterior 

 t, and having in front of each excavation a compressed triangular 

 bh curving backwards, and at the apex of the anterior declivous 

 t two small tubercles, the posterior part is broadly sulcate as far 

 ihe basal part, and the excavations as well as the median part 

 the disk are smooth, in the smaller development the cephalic 

 n is nearly vertical and only 3 J mm. long, the anterior part of 



prothorax is only slightly hollowed, but the two anterior teeth 

 L the two median tubercles are very well defined ; inner part 

 anterior tibiae produced into a distinct, sub-diagonal spine at 



IX. 



female : Clypeus slightly acuminate at tip ; frontal carina very 

 binct and arcuate, frontal part with a median high carina conical 

 iach end ; prothorax covered with closely set punctures except in 



supra-basal median part, impressed on each side of the anterior 

 dian part, the two impressions are divided by a cuneiform, ver- 

 il lobate process, and have on the side a short, vertical, carinate 

 lercle, the median part of the disk has only an impressed line in 



posterior part. 



liength 13-16 mm. ; width 7-10 mm. 

 ^ah. Southern Ehodesia (Manica). 



Chis species was originally described from German East Africa 

 ^anda, &c.), and is said by Kolbe to occur also in West Africa 

 mda). 



